Arizona Cardinals have cap space to re-sign Larry Fitzgerald

FLAGSTAFF - The Arizona Cardinals are about $13.2 million under the salary cap, giving them ample room to re-sign receiver Larry Fitzgerald without making any adjustments.

Cardinals General Manager Rod Graves is continuing to negotiate with Fitzgerald's agent, Eugene Parker. Neither man has commented on the status of talks.

The 51 highest-paid players currently count against the salary cap. So two more will be added to the cap when the regular-season roster is set.

It's possible that re-signing Fitzgerald could give the team additional cap space. Fitzgerald's cap figure for 2011 is $11.25 million. A new contract could lower that. The Cardinals also could choose to front load the contract to lighten the impact in the later years of the deal.

In other salary news:

- Quarterback Kevin Kolb received a $10 million signing bonus as part of his five-year extension. His $2 million salary is guaranteed.

In 2012, $1 million of his base salary is guaranteed and he has a $7 million roster bonus. In 2013, he has a $9 million salary with a $2 million roster bonus. Kolb is due to make $10 million in salary each year from 2014 through 2016.

- Outside linebacker Joey Porter took a hefty pay cut in 2011. He was due to make $5.75 million in each of the next two seasons. Instead, he signed a one-year deal at $1.5 million.

- Guard Deuce Lutui's one-year deal is worth $1.25 million. That's about $500,000 less than he made last season under his restricted free-agent tender.

No invitation

Guard Daryn Colledge, formerly with the Packers, will spend some time with his old teammates later this week when the Cardinals travel to Green Bay. Colledge would have enjoyed spending time with them last week, too, when the Packers, the defending Super Bowl champions, were honored at the White House on Friday. Colledge, who started at left guard for the Packers, was "a little disappointed" he wasn't invited.

"It's a disappointing fact that they didn't even call guys that helped (them) win to see if they wanted to join them," he said. "They said it was a logistics thing, but I believe I had the day off."

Colledge talked to some of his former teammates about the trip and was happy they could attend.

"It just pushes me and says I need to find a way to get back there again with my new team," he said.

Pumping the brakes

Several players have commented about this training camp having a different, better feel than 2010. Coach Ken Whisenhunt won't go that far.

"Our guys worked hard last year in camp," he said. "We had some things that didn't go the way we wanted them to go in-season, but I'm not going to get into comparing how we felt last year at camp to how we feel this year at camp.